The Tropical House (La Maison Tropicale), Tate Modern, South Bank, London.

The Tropical House (La Maison Tropicale), Tate Modern, South Bank, London.
Originally uploaded by Jim Linwood

The prototype house, designed by the French architect Jean Prouvé (1901–84), for 1950s colonial West Africa, is erected outside Tate Modern.

Visitors are able to walk around this ‘flat pack’ house which was originally erected in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, in 1951. In 2000 the house was found in Brazzaville, in a dilapidated state and riddled with bullet holes. The house was dismantled, returned to France and restored.